Literature Resource Center includes resources on literary topics, authors, and their works. Includes scholarly articles, topic overviews, book reviews, biographical essays as well as poems and short stories.

Books in the Reference Collection

Reference books are a great place to start your research, since they provide background and context on a country's geography, history, language and culture. Below is a sample of some of the books in the library's reference collection that cover topics in Chinese language, literature and culture.

In 800 expert-written articles, The Berkshire Encyclopedia of China provides unrivaled insight into Chinese history and culture today, including everything from "Adoption" and "Banking" to "Wound Literature" and "Zhou Dynasty."

Features over 50 of the world's languages and language families with information on both grammatical features and the language's history and cultural role.

Recommended Web Resources

There are a lot of great resources on the web where you can find information about China and its language and culture as well as online primary texts (stories, poems and novels) and recordings of literature being read aloud. Have fun exploring!

Chinaculture.org offers broad access to up-to-date cultural news about China with a wealth of information about Chinese history, culture, politics and economy. Under the guidance of the Ministry of Culture, Chinaculture.org was developed and is maintained by Chinadaily.com.cn.

From Mark Bender, professor in the East Asian Studies Center at Ohio State University, this site includes a timeline as well as comprehensive overviews of Chinese, Japanese and Korean History. Use the navigation bar on the left side of the page to choose individual modules on China, Japan and Korea.

FOREASt, or Free Open Resources for East Asian Studies, collects relevant scholarly resources published on the Internet by individual scholars, academic institutions, cultural institutions (libraries, museums, archives), government agencies, and occasionally commercial entities. Currently FOREASt provides access to over 300 free databases and journals on East Asia "published" in North America, Europe, Australia and, of course, East Asia.